S1: Health and Social Care: GE2019 - a podcast by Abimbola Johnson and Ayo Afolabi

Set up by two friends, Abimbola Johnson (known as OJ) and Ayo Afolabi. The Manifesto Read has gathered groups of experts to have round table discussions about the areas of the big three's manifestos that correspond with their areas of industry.

This Episode’s Panel:

Kelechi Eseonu a speciality registrar in Trauma and Orthopaedics in London. Kelechi completed his primary medical qualification at the University of Edinburgh, with an intercalated BSc (Hons) in Genetics. After completing foundation and core training at Imperial College NHS trust, Great Ormond Street and the Royal London Hospital, Kelechi started higher orthopaedic training on the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (Stanmore) rotation in 2013. Kelechi undertook an Executive MSc in Health Economics, Management and Policy at the London School of Economics (LSE) where he developed an interest in the financial evaluation of health provision. He has also been awarded an MSc in Musculoskeletal sciences at the University of Oxford. He was awarded the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS) in 2019. He has published a number of papers in Trauma and Orthopaedics and has presented his research both nationally and internationally. He has a keen interest in medical education and politics. He has previously been a Vice Chair of the British Medical Association (BMA) regional Junior doctors committee. He currently sits on the National Council of the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) Trainees Committee as well as the British Association of Spinal Surgery (BASS) trainee sub-committee. He is a member of the AO Spine, BASS as well as the British Orthopaedic Association.

Danielle Solomon is a Specialist Registrar in Public Health and a Wellcome Trust Clinical PhD Fellow at the Institute for Global Health, University College London (UCL). She holds a medical degree from Oxford University and a Masters in Public Health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Prior to specialising in public health, Danielle practiced as a sexual health and HIV physician at the Mortimer Market Centre in central London. She also previously worked as the Technical Advisor for HIV and AIDS at the international NGO Pathfinder International in Boston, and worked with the UK Faculty of Public Health on the blueprint for the UK's post-Brexit relationship with the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.

Daniel Malynn South London Vascular Network Manager. He was a former senior policy adviser at Department of Health and Social Care, working on integrated care, NHS long term plan. He is a writer for BioNews on assisted conception and genetics. Although he is not a practising barrister, Daniel was called to the Bar in 2011

Janita Halsey is the Youth Manager for a well established youth and community charity in Hackney that has been running 31 years. It was started by the Police in 1988 to keep young people positively engaged and divert them from crime. Its primary goal today is to help young people and families feel positive about themselves and their futures, give them opportunities to have new experiences and to walk alongside them on their journeys. As the youth manager she develops positive youth engagement programmes that provide support and opportunities to help young people thrive and reach their full potential, alongside working with statutory organisations such as social services, schools and GPs. She has worked in the voluntary sector full time for over 12 years and has a wealth of experience with working with some of the hardest to reach, most vulnerable young people and families in communities of high deprivation. Janita grew up with her parents being foster carers and so she is keenly aware of social care issues for young people. Today, she is part of the legal support care network for close friends who currently foster.

Iyuwa Adedeji is family law barrister called to the Bar in 2012 with a master’s degree in Advanced Child Protection. After an established career in family law at the self-employed Bar, she has spent the last two years working in Local Authority Children's Services legal departments advising on child protection and safeguarding. She is currently the Interim Team Manager of a busy team in Essex. She is the Safeguarding Trustee for a family support and intervention charity offering befriending and therapy services. She has also previously worked for non-for-profit organisations working with and for people with disabilities and advising on welfare rights, as well as volunteering with the personal support unit assisting litigants in person and as a McKenzie Friend with the National Centre for Domestic Violence. Whilst at university she was trained and worked as a youth mentor for the youth offending team empowering disadvantaged children to reach their full potential, whilst also running a pro-bono prisoners’ rights program delivering talks to vulnerable prisoners at HMP Hull and setting up and training students for the University’s legal advice centre.

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